"Every swing he took was a potential home run. He was the only man on the face ... "If that's not fate," Mark McGwire said, "I don't know what is." Fate or not, the summer of '98 was an incredible ...

Long, lanky, and bullishly strong, the Oakland A's Mark McGwire burst onto the Major League Baseball scene in his rookie season of 1987 by crushing a then rookie record 49 home runs. Sep 7, 1998; St.